Kix Brooks enjoyed one of the great thrills of his career when longtime Eagles member Joe Walsh agreed to play on Kix’s song, “New to This Town” — and now that Kix and Joe are nominated at the American Country Awards for their collaboration, Kix says it just makes the whole experience that much more special for him. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Kix and Joe are up for Single of the Year: Vocal Collaboration for their work on “New to This Town.” Be sure to tune-in to see all the excitement of the 2012 American Country Awards, airing this Monday, at 8pm, ET, on FOX.
• “New to This Town” is the title track to Kix’s recently released solo album, which also includes his cool new single, “Moonshine Road.”

  Kix Brooks says that being nominated for an award is just icing on the cake to his collaboration with Joe Walsh. (:52)
“The fact that Joe Walsh even knows who I am is just overwhelming to me. You know? And he really screwed up when he gave me his e-mail! (laughs) I met him out there on the [Kenny] Chesney stadium tours, but when we got done recordin’ this song, it just kind of had that cool ‘ol Eagles kind of vibe to it, and I took the liberty of sendin’ it to Joe, and man, it was one of the greatest days of my life when he called up and said, ‘Man, I want to play on your record!’ And he actually went home to his home studio that night and recorded those tracks and e-mailed ’em to me. I mean, can you imagine gettin’ a e-mail from Joe Walsh and openin’ it (laughs) up, and here’s these awesome Joe Walsh slide parts on your song? And I was just so excited anyway, and now to be nominated for an award, it’s really special. That’d be cool to get to share that with Joe.”